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title: Job 37:14 (JPS 1917) — Hearken unto this, O Job; stand still, and consider the wondrous wor… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearken unto this, O Job; stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. Who acts: you, God. Job 37:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 37:14 · JPS 1917

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Hearken unto this, O Job; stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

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**Who acts:** you, God · **What happens:** hearken, stand, consider, work · **To what, where:** wondrous works

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This is Job 37:14 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JOB:987
# text = Hearken unto this, O Job; stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
1	Hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	consider	consider	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto this; Job *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consider** | infinitive |  | the wondrous works of God |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent work=Attribute |
| 4 | **work** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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הַאֲזִ֣ינָה זֹּ֣את אִיּ֑וֹב עֲ֝מֹ֗ד וְהִתְבּוֹנֵ֤ן ׀ נִפְלְא֬וֹת אֵֽל׃

[Job 37:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.14/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:987` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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